$85 MILLION LOTTO JACKPOT DRAWS MANY PLANNING ON QUICK WEALTH.Byline: Joseph Giordono Staff Writer Dreamers around the Southland south·land or South·land n. A region in the south of a country or an area. south  land·er n.Noun 1. put up their dollars Tuesday for a one-in- 41-million chance of winning tonight's $85 million SuperLotto Plus drawing - the seventh-largest jackpot in California Lottery history and the nation's largest current jackpot. ``When I win, I'll buy everyone a house. I mean, everyone in my family,'' said Varooj Aghazarian, a Glendale mechanic who was buying a Quick Pick ticket at the Liquor Works in Tarzana. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why I play, but I have from the very beginning. I just play with an extra dollar or two.'' A single jackpot winner of $85 million choosing to receive 26 annual payments could expect the first payment to equal approximately $2.1 million and the 26th payment to be approximately $4.3 million before taxes. The estimated cash value would equal roughly $42 million. Liquor Works owner Jin Yoo knows exactly what a winning ticket would mean to her. If the winning ticket is purchased in her store, she gets one- half of 1 percent of the jackpot, or $410,000. Even people who have since moved away from the neighborhood will return to her store to purchase tickets for luck, she said. ``We have lotto customers who live in Calabasas now, but they still come back and play here,'' Yoo said. ``They say they will come back and share it with me.'' Yoo has lotto dreams as well. ``I'm waiting for that big surprise one day when I open the store and the lottery people and the newspapers are here waiting for me because someone bought it in my store,'' she said. High payouts like today's are not unprecedented. Ten years ago, 54 winners split $118.8 million, the largest single jackpot in California history. Last March, San Cho, then a nurse from Moraga in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , won $89 million in the highest individual jackpot. With the payout pay·out n. 1. The act or an instance of paying out. 2. A percentage of corporate earnings that is paid as dividends to shareholders. amount already in that range, Lotto sales are peaking despite the one-in-41-million odds. At Four Points Liquor on Pearblossom Highway in Palmdale, customers bought four times as many tickets between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday as the store usually sells in a day. ``We've done around $400 in sales today,'' manager Donna Phelps said Tuesday. ``Usually (we sell) maybe $100 to $125 and that's usually for the whole day and this is just for a shift.'' Phelps said most of her customers buy the $5 Quick Pick, and most are choosing cash value instead of payments over 26 years. People buy the tickets, she thought, because ``everybody's got a dream. ... They might be the next California millionaire.'' She bought one ticket herself. ``That's all it takes,'' Phelps said. Of course, others preferred a more traditional path to riches: squeezing a couple more bucks out of a fading fading fading skin coloring. See Arabian fading syndrome (below). Declining in body condition, general health, activity and productivity. Arabian fading syndrome general health is unimpaired. trend. John Pepe and Danny Bell were sweltering swel·ter·ing adj. 1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry. 2. Suffering from oppressive heat. swel under a plastic shade tent Tuesday afternoon on Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. , hawking what remained of their Lakers See Lake poets paraphernalia PARAPHERNALIA. The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her husband's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life. . ``I think we'll be out here for a couple more weeks,'' Pepe said. Business was still going well following the Lakers' championship run, with anything emblazoned ``World Champions'' displacing the previously ubiquitous car flags as best sellers. As for playing lotto? Pepe said he would rather take his chances selling Lakers T-shirts and hats. ``The chances of winning the lottery are about as good as going to the Lakers victory parade Victory parade is a type of parade held in order to celebrate a victory. Because of that, victory parades can be divided into military victory parades and more frequent sport victory parades. Monday and finding a specific penny that fell out of a specific person's pocket,'' he said. Lottery officials said ticket sales start to snowball snowball: see honeysuckle. once the payout is rolled over a few times. ``Once the jackpot hits $30 million, people tend to get very excited and go out and buy more tickets,'' said California Lottery spokeswoman Norma Minas Minas may refer to:
State lottery A game of chance operated by a state government. Generally a lottery offers a person the chance to win a prize in exchange for something of lesser value. Most lotteries offer a large cash prize, and the chance to win the cash prize is typically available for one dollar. sales reached $2.7 billion for the fiscal year that ends June 30, officials said. Of that amount, $1 billion goes straight to public education. Wednesday's winning ticket - if there is one - would send almost $50 million to public schools. Seven-year-old Isabel Contreras clutched her daddy's hand as the pair waited in line Tuesday in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and joked about the mansion they would buy when they won. Frank Contreras held a crisp $20 bill in his other hand - half for Quick Picks, half for a string of lucky numbers he and Isabel would put together. ``I get a new bike when we win,'' Isabel said, as the pair shifted forward in the line at Valencia Liquor. ``You can have five bikes and one for all your friends, if we win,'' said her father. Staff Writers Peggy Hager and Patricia Farrell Aidem contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, chart Photo: (1 -- color) Varooj Aghazarian of Glendale holds up the SuperLotto ticket he hopes will bring him and his family riches, roughly $42 million before taxes with the cash value option, in tonight's jackpot drawing. It is the seventh-biggest pot of money in state lottery history. (2) Jin Yoo, owner of Liquor Works, processes a SuperLotto ticket Tuesday. If her store sells the winner, she'll get $410,000. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer Chart: CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST SUPERLOTTO JACKPOTS |
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